MOSCOW. April 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The United States regards the Russian presidential commission on prisoners of war, internees and those reported missing as its main partner in joint efforts to track down U.S. and Russian citizens who are unaccounted for, the commission's co-chairman and State Duma deputy Nikolai Bezborodov told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
"The American side has repeatedly thanked the commission for helping clear up the destinies of missing citizens," Bezborodov said.
A search for archive records about Americans who were undergoing treatment in Soviet military hospitals during World War II is currently being conducted at Washington's request, the general said.
Information about 31 U.S. servicemen has been handed over and the names of another 60 American servicemen and civilians have been established and are being checked, he said.
Russia has information about the sites of six U.S. plane crashes in various parts of the Kamchatka peninsula during World War II. Work is also underway to identify U.S. citizens killed in Cold War incidents.